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Why the FBI Director Doesn't Bank Online
angry tapir writes "The head of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation has stopped banking online after nearly falling for a phishing attempt. FBI Director Robert Mueller said he recently came 'just a few clicks away from falling into a classic Internet phishing scam' after receiving an e-mail that appeared to be from his bank."
Fortunately his wife will continue to use online banking...
My take away from it was that the head of the FBI knows surprisingly little about phishing. Let's hope someone on his staff briefs him on 419 scams before he sends his life's savings to the former finance minister for the deposed Crown Prince of Nigeria.
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
He's a the top manager. Is he expected to know anything? That's for the underlings to take care of.
Robert Mueller,
There has been a technical issue we need to resolve with your account at counter-intel.fbi.gov.
Please click on the above link and fill in your details. Follow the on screen instructions and the error will be corrected.
Thank you and have a good day,
FBI Technical Support
"FBI director too dumb to use the Internet"
Hilarious. Great headline.
Robert Mueller's the guy I keep getting emails from asking me to accept some money from Nigeria. He's always claimed to be the head of the FBI, but I never believed him. Man, all this time I've been risking arrest and denying myself several hundred thousand US dollars just because I thought it was a scam! I guess you shouldn't be skeptical of everything you get in your inbox.
I'm a psychologist (amongst other things).
Photo ID, pffft.
My bank will only allow access to my account when presented with my erect penis.
It should be your flaccid penis. Erect penises give away eager identity thieves.
but that's only for making deposits? and watch out for the penalty for early withdrawl....
I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
Identity Theft - Mitchell and Webb
Insightful or funny... I think both.
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They keep a microscope at every branch?
-sorry had to :(
It is rare that people recover from gullibility.
I don't believe you.
Oh, wait, I guess that's still true. :)
I bank online about once a week. Everytime I connect, I check the HTTPS certificate. Also, my bank does not know my email address. If I get email from my bank, I KNOW it's a fake. period.
Not giving the bank your e-mail address means major hassles for them. Printing a letter, licking a stamp, then licking the envelope, et cetera.
So in order to save them money, the bank has my e-mail address. However, it's a special e-mail address that routes over a ToA network connection (TCP-over-Avian). Thus when I see the pigeon arrive, I know for a fact that -- yes -- it's my bank that's sending me an e-mail.
You just have to outsmart the scammers. I guess I have that talent.
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